To know why Gongsun Qi is called "White Rising", the key question is to find out exactly who calls Gongsun Qi "White Rising".
Bai Qi was a famous general of the Qin State during the Warring States period, and Wang Qi, Lian Po, Li Mu and called the four famous generals of the Warring States, surnamed Qi, Bai Shi, was born in Yiyi, this place is now Baijia Village, Changxing Town, Mei County, Shaanxi, perhaps because of the emergence of historical celebrities such as Bai Qi, it is possible to preserve the name of Baijia Village. He served as the main general of the Qin army for more than 30 years, and the most famous battle was the Battle of Changping, which severely damaged the main force of the Zhao state, killed 400,000 soldiers and civilians of the Zhao state, and laid the foundation for the unification of the six kingdoms of Qin. Bai Qi was called "Human Slaughter" by the people of the time and was given the title of Wu Anjun, but in the end, because of his high merit, he was killed by King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
In fact, people at that time should be called BaiQi's titles, such as "Wu'an Jun", or directly called "Jun", to show respect. Peers or elders may call him "Gongsun Qi" more often, because "Gongsun" refers to the descendants of people with status, which is also a title that respects Bai Qi. There are probably not many people who can call him white. Even those who are hostile to Bai Qi, behind his back, will definitely call him "human slaughter", which means to kill gods or kill people, and there should not be many people who call him by his name.
To say that at that time, the only one who could call "Bai Qi" directly was King Qin Zhaoxiang himself, or the empress dowager in the harem. For example, in the Zizhi Tongjian Zhou Ji, there is a discussion between King Qin Zhao and Ying Hou Qunchen: 'The intention of the white rise is still unconvincing, and there are other words.' '" record. Lao Huang originally suspected that Wang Anshi also deduced that King Qin Zhao would call him "Bai Qi" in this way, and later thought that Wang Anshi might also have the information recorded by the Qin Dynasty historians, so it was true that King Qin Zhao would call "Bai Qi". It should be noted that this King of Qin Zhao called "Bai Qi" behind his back. In fact, King Qin Zhao once said in front of Bai Qi's face: "The king tries to attack the multitude with a widow, and wins like a god, but strikes the weak with the strong, and hits the widow with the multitude?" "Look, even the King of Qin has to call Bai Qi "Jun", and who dares to call bai qi in person?
In fact, the people who will really call Gongsun Qi "Bai Qi" are the historians or writers of later generations, and most of them will call this great military expert "Bai Qi". For example, in the "Chronicle of the Seventy Columns of History, The Biography of the White Rising King", the opening paragraph says" "The white risers, the people who are also." This is not that Sima Qian did not respect Bai Qi, but that posterity wrote history books and used names, but it seemed that this character had more personality and more flesh and blood. It was not until the last paragraph of the article about Bai Qi that Sima Qian began to call Bai Qi "Wu An Jun", and the original text had such a description as "Wu An Jun was ill and could not be done".
There are many other works on the title of "Bai Qi", for example, in the "Warring States Strategy Volume 6 Qin Ce IV", it is written that "In the twenty years of the Xiang King, Qin Bai rose up and pulled out the Chu XiLing..." The Book of Han and the Chronicle of criminal law reads: "If Qin, because of the victory of the Fourth Dynasty, according to the obstruction of the rivers and mountains, appoint the disciples of Bai Qi and Wang Qi jackals, fight their minions, and hunt the six kingdoms with birds, so as to merge the world." In the Zizhi Tongjian Zhou Ji, Bai Qi has always been called "Wu'an Jun", and in the original text, there is a record of "the King of Qin heard it, was angry, and raised Wu Anjun, and Wu'anjun was called sick". There are also some literary works that are directly called "qi", for example, in the thousand-character text, there is "Qi Quite Pastoral, the most refined military." ”
In fact, in ancient times, when writing people's names, it was customary to replace "surname" with "surname" to show respect. For example, Lian Po and Li Mu, who are also the four famous generals, are both surnamed Ying, but literary works do not call them "Ying Po" and "Yin Mu", because Lian Po is a Lian clan, and Li Mu is a Li clan. Some people may ask, then why didn't Qin Shi Huang call it "Zhao Zheng" but "Win Zheng"? This is misled by film and television works, TV shouted Qin Shi Huang "win the government", are people who hate him, this is also understandable, check the literary works, you can find a few direct calls "win the government"? Modern people do not pay attention to it, so they will call it by name.
So, if none of the above works are called "white rising" but "qi qi", is that the problem? And the shouting of "Qi Qi" is neither smooth nor imposing, and does not conform to the image of White Rising, so even modern people who do not have so much red tape will be accustomed to calling "White Rising" instead of "Qi Qi".
Now you should know why Gongsun Qi is called Bai Qi!